Osteocephalus fuscifacies

Osteocephalus fuscifacies is a frog in the family Hylidae. It lives in Ecuador and Peru.  In Ecuador, it lives near the River Napo. Scientists have seen it between 250 and 600 meters above sea level.

The adult male frog is 34.7–44.2 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 57.5–51.5 mm.

The skin on the frog's back is the color of coffee.  The skin on the frog's belly is the color of coffee mixed with gray, with white bumps.  Some frogs have a gray or brown mark below each eye.  The iris of the eye is gold in color with black marks.

This frog moves at night.  The male frogs sit on bromeliad plants 7 m or more above the forest floor.  The female frogs lay their eggs in water that in the bromeliad leaves.  The tadpoles hatch and swim in this water.  This frog almost never goes to the forest floor.  It stays in the trees for most of its life.

The Latin name of this frog fuscifacies means "brown face."

References

Category:Frogs of South America